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First seated dime and CC coin

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garyflal

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I asked several questions this morning in one post on the Explorer classroom forum regarding how others deal with sites that have a lot of iron. I've been using an Explorer II for 2+ months and have found a barber dime, merc, IHs and 'v' nickels that I missed with other detectors at an old park. Recently though I've experienced some iron falsing problems along with a few other problems. Steve (MS) has been helping me since getting the Exp II. He suggested a program that used IM that might help with some of the recent issues. This afternoon I went back to the park for a couple of hours and used IM instead of all metal. I also tried max auto sens.. I hunted an area of the park where I had never found an old coin or used the Explorer before. I found the Ave Maria charm first, then what I thought were two wheats and a worn merc. I didn't know I'd found either the IH or seated dime until I got home and soaked the coins. Initially I thought I'd found another barber dime when I saw 'ONE DIME' on the reverse. Even after I saw 1876, I still didn't realize what I'd found for several seconds and then it hit me. The scratches on the obverse were already there. Reading the FM Explorer forums helps a lot and I appreciate everyone's input.
Happy Thanksgiving
 
Great find.....and a CC to boot!.....Good pics of them also.....Iron infested fields are a pain but can be hunted.....but get ready to dig some iron.....I think cut nails are the worse.....to work those areas best is it try diff. settings, I start with low sens, and work my way up, small coil will help, I try auto sens and manual sens.... search at diff. angles....try to build a saved pattern from that paticular site and use it....hunt with no disc. or and use saved pattern,,,,,if you make a pattern using the learn feature and you have a sunrsy X-1 probe, use that to learn target instead of coil..and use the smallest curser not the medium or largest one. There are so many ways to load and edit saved patterns its fun. get creative and sneak up on more old coins in iron....and a rule of thumb is if it sounds good one way of swing and turn 90 deg. and swing again and it sounds like solid iron then move on.....but always try to isolate target from numerous angles and if you hear it and eyeball ground to where it sounds like its at and then pinpoint and it is not there but is over to the side.it is iron... Good luck and save some old coins for us!!! :please:
 
Mat,
Thank you for the suggestions. Initially I made several coin patterns and found a few older coins but as I read this forum and saw where so many were using all metal I decided to give it a try. I found a several more older coins and thought this is the only way to go if you can stand the nails machine gunning you. Though all metal can be draining I started to feel that if I didn't use all metal I'd be missing some coins laying next to nails and I didn't like tones being chopped by the nulling that IM and patterns cause. I practiced more with the iron and coins and started digging more iffy signals with maybe 20% of them being good targets but then I started having the problem of digging plugs and not finding anything. I couldn't determine if the cause was large deep items, falsing from nails, or hot rocks. I'll never know if I would have found these coins with all metal but I can't argue with the results plus my ears liked quiet. Thanks Steve.
 
I did send you a post on classroom forum

If you don;t have a sunray X-1 probe I would seriously consider buying one if its in your budget

Hot rocks are easy to spot....they get tucked very high right hand corner...much more higher than silver....with silver you can see the middle cross in box....with hot rocks there is only left and bottom line showing. Also hot rocks will ID at 31 ....meaning iron. Just remember I refer to XS not SE so what ever diff. there is use it in perspective to such diff.

There are some days I don't feel like dealing with tons of targets sounding off....as in all metal.....so I got the luxury of disc....and use it at this time....I agree with you and everybody else that all metal is better not to miss much but sometimes quiet is good....and only dig possitive ID'ed coins and not drive myself crazy trying to isolate hard close targets.

You are heading in the right direction and always mix settings and preference up from time to time in the same areas cause it does make a diff............another luxury of the Explorer..very versitial I think!
 
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I get very excited when I find a Seated Coin up here since there seems to be only a few of them ever found. Congrats on that CC Coin! Good Luck and HH.:thumbup:
 
Thanks Crowduck. By pure luck I found an 1853 half dime in sw FL when I first started land detecting 5 years ago. I really didn't think I'd ever find a seated coin in this park.
 
Thanks James. I doubt I'll find another one anytime soon. You guys up north have most of the good old coins, but in the south we have more time to search for the few old ones that are here.
 
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